krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Vertigo - Hitch classic with Kim Novak and Jimmy Stewart. I'd always believed I'd seen this but I'm wrong, must have been Rear Window.
What DVD / Video did you watch last night? (pt3)
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krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Lolita - Kubrick's 1962 take on the Nabakov novel. I guess it was quite controversial for it's time. James Mason comes across as a controlling lech, Sue Lyon and Shelley Winters are great but it's Peter Sellers who steals the show, for me.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Ice Age 4
once again the squirrel and his nut make the film. He should get his own film. Nay, he should get a series. there were some excellent 'for the adults' gags including a very brief visual reference to Planet of the Apes, the smashed Statue of Liberty scene.
once again the squirrel and his nut make the film. He should get his own film. Nay, he should get a series. there were some excellent 'for the adults' gags including a very brief visual reference to Planet of the Apes, the smashed Statue of Liberty scene.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
oh and also all of star wars rebels season 2. Ezra is far less annoying, the tone has matured and VADER.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Tower Block - Sheridan Smith leads a plucky band of top floor dwellers in a block about to be demolished. Superior B movie.
Reno
The In Kraut
Nina Forever. Oddball British horror film about a young man who starts a new relationship after the death of his girlfriend and then the mangled, dead girlfriend keeps reappearing in their bed, every time the couple have sex. Not bad and curious take on how grief sometimes doesn't let go but it gets a little repetitive after a while.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
I watched this old documentary about this guy "Leonard Zelig", who was apparently the cultural phenomenon of 1920s America. He used to change his appearance, ethnicity, body size, etc. to match that of whoever he encountered at the time. I was wondering why I had never heard of him before.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I watched this and The Secret Life Of Pets recently and found myself overthinking them too much.
What about fish? Are fish and insects prey that they are allowed to stalk and kill and eat? Or are all these utopian animals vegetarians?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
His reputation was damaged when he started hanging out with Roman Polanski, Gary Glitter and Jimmy Savile. He just had to fit in.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Woody Allen?
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
no, Zelig
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
American remake of Les Revanants on Netflix
Little did we know we'd be left with Series Blue Balls as it was cancelled and no second series, right at the crucial point before the series finale.
Little did we know we'd be left with Series Blue Balls as it was cancelled and no second series, right at the crucial point before the series finale.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
It was a lot better than I thought it would be (I had to chaperon four 5/6 year olds for a birthday treat)
DexterTCN
Troy and Abed in the morning
Yup...totally overthinking.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
not sure though, i had a very interesting conversation with my 10 year old nephew about it
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
these things need to follow some kind of internal logic. i don't think they considered invertebrates enough, the speciesist bastards
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
yes, but what did you think of it?
Nanker Phelge
Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.
Enjoying Gotham series 2, much more than the first season.
Reno
The In Kraut
The Shallows, which basically is the first scene from Jaws expanded to feature length. Young woman gets attacked by shark near a lonely beach. Only instead of getting eaten after the fish takes a bite out of her, she does everything she can to survive. It gets a little preposterous by the end, but entertainingly so. I liked that the second most important character is a seagull. This unpretentious but very efficient genre film is far more thrilling and fun than all the superhero battles which lumbered through the multiplexes this year and it was made on a fraction of their budget.
trabuquera
Modesty Bag
Ditto - it's a bit too obviously recapping the directors' favourite bits of The Raid, Assault on Precinct 13, etc and it's a bit self-conscious about how much it loves John Carpenter (the synth soundtrack and the odd crashing bit of Social Messaging are straight rips), but it's fun enough, refreshingly OTT in the brutality at the front end, and it keeps your attention. Sheridan Smith is OK but in my view not quite charismatic enough. Jack O Connell much better.
( The basic concept is clearly bobbins though - no way one sniper would be able to keep an entire building tied down, and - like every movie of this sort - the whole thing could be easily sorted out with a few well-placed mobile phone calls
)DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
I just remember tony stark being an annoying prick. Still, at least it wasn't Suicide Squad. The cartoons are doing me better service tbh, the superhero films are just over for me. And I like comics.
I'll still be a sucker for x-men films though. Examining the plight of the Other through heroic mythos? always works for me, that and the competing ideologies 'we are gods lets fuck them all up' vs 'we must be in control of ourselves and learn as they must learn to accept us'
never gets old
Reno
The In Kraut
I've enjoyed several of the Marvel and X-Men films but both series have gotten repetitive and they are running out of steam. The DC equivalent has been so utterly shit from the little I have seen, I'm not going to bother with it.
Orang Utan
Psychick Worrier Ov Geyoor
I agree with Alan Moore about comic book films:
Alan Moore confirms he is retiring from creating comic books
Alan Moore confirms he is retiring from creating comic books
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